When You Find Out the World Is Against You: And Other Funny Memories About Awful Moments - Hardcover

Things That Can Make You Feel Really Crappy (an abbreviated list):

• When your mother tells you you’re going to camp, but then abandons you at a sketchy daycare, in the path of an oncoming tornado.
• When you finally get to go to real camp one summer and hope it will make you a twelve-year-old “kissing bandit” but instead your eyebrows get pulled off in an unfortunate plaster mask accident.
• When you realize that the pain in your armpits is just anxiety.
• When you realize anxiety is far more crippling than pain in your armpits.
• When you realize your kids are old enough to render you obsolete—except when in need of new phones and/or jeans.
• When your need to be needed makes you desire a poodle, and then poodle vigilantes totally attack you on the Internet for innocently proclaiming your love.
• When you discover that the would-be leader of the country you now call home has said terrible things about women, on tape for the world to hear.

Things that Can Make You Feel a Bit Better:

• Creating the hashtag #NotOkay, where millions of women came together to share their stories of sexual assault and fight back, and feel slightly less ashamed and alone.
• Laughing at yourself. Laughing with other people.

Kelly Oxford is known as one of the Funniest People on the Internet (Rolling Stone) and a Social Media Powerhouse (NYT). When You Find Out the World Is Against You is a collection of stories drawn from all periods and aspects of Kelly’s life—her coming-of-age in Canada, her approach to marriage and motherhood, and what happens when you uproot your entire life to Los Angeles, a place as far in culture and climate from Canada as it gets.